Spring 2027

Exploring Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Introductory seminar exploring how people make meaning across times, cultures, media, and disciplines within the humanities.

offering recorded3–4 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jordan Wessling

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Beatriz Botero

The course was characterized as very easy, though participation was an important component of the class experience.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and explain how people make meaning across times, cultures, media, and disciplines at an elementary level

  • Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people make meaning in past and present at an elementary level.

  • Begin to recognize and synthesize diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches to how people make meaning.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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ILS 110

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Professors

Spring 2027
Historical instructors & teaching patterns

BEATRIZ BOTERO is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 300
LEC 002Classroom Instruction0 / 300

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Beatriz Botero

A student described Beatriz Botero as a caring instructor who created a generally easy class environment with clear expectations.

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.79 GPA, 93.5% A/AB (n=31 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.86 GPA, 96.5% A/AB (n=57 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.87 GPA, 95.9% A/AB (n=49 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Beatriz Botero

The course was characterized as very easy, though participation was an important component of the class experience.

Past student reviews · Beatriz Botero

The reviewer noted that the instructor was very sweet and that they could tell she cared a lot.

Topics

  • Making meaning across times, cultures, media, and disciplines
  • Diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches

Skills

  • Identify and explain how people make meaning across times, cultures, media, and disciplines
  • Critically analyze diverse approaches to how people make meaning in past and present
  • Recognize and synthesize diverse types of knowledge and disciplinary approaches

Grades

Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Spring 2027.

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1316 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

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Selected offering source records
ILS 110 · Spring 2027

Exploring Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Recorded 2026-10-14
ILS 110 · Spring 2027

Reason Revelation West Thought

Recorded 2026-10-14
ILS 110 · Spring 2027

Modern Response West Tradition

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
LLM outputs across runs
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Full model traces

Recorded model configuration, reasoning, and tool conversations.

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Model & dataset provenance 
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